NEW DELHI (PTI): The Pakistani Cricket team would be touring India as scheduled, Jagmohan Dalmiya, president of the Gncket Association of Bengal (GAB), on Sept.20 asserted.
The tour is scheduled to start with the six nation hero cup tournament of CAB (beginning from Nov.7) as part of its diamond jubilee celebrations nationwide.
Dalmiya, who is convener secretary of Pak-Indo Lanka joint bid committee of the world cup said the Pakistan Cricket Board has confirmed the tour during his recent visit to the country and that the has “no information to the contrary.”
He was reacting to a report on Monday which quoted BCCP officials Arif Ali Khan Abbasi and Shahid Rafi expressing doubts over Pakistan’s tour of India,
Dalmiya said in a fax message from Calcutta that after the board of cricket control cleared a tour, the only way it can get cancelled is if the government has the power to restrain players from appearing in matches, Dalmiya said this happens sometimes due to security reasons as in case of India’s nonparticipation al Sharjah.
The other requirements like foreign exchange, are not major problems, he said, “There has not been any hitch whatsoever since we had our last meeting when the BECP confirmed Pakistan’s tour.”
“Not a single match has been assigned to the Pakistan team in the riot-prone or sensitive areas, This had been extensively dis. Cussed and clarified to the BECP during my recent visit to Pakistan,” Dalmiya said.
Article extracted from this publication >> October 1, 1993
